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Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 148
Land area (2000): 0.357385 sq. miles (0.925623 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.357385 sq. miles (0.925623 sq. km)
FIPS code: 38780
Located within: North Dakota (ND), FIPS 38
Location: 48.535224 N, 97.636818 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 58243
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Hoople
Wikipedia
A Hoople is a hoop-shaped mobility aid used by some blind and visually impaired people, and was designed to help them navigate their way over rough terrain or in a rural environment. It performs a similar role to a white cane, but is designed for use in conditions where using a white cane can be difficult, for example, in snow or on sand. It can also be used by young children as a pre-cane aid or by people with arthritis and other medical conditions which would make the use of a traditional cane difficult. The Hoople is designed to detect obstructions, much like cat's whiskers, through both tactile and audio feedback. Because the Hoople is moved along the ground rather than being moved from side to side like a cane the user can also detect drops two paces ahead, narrow gaps or similar potential obstructions on either side of the path ahead. The Hoople was invented in the early 1990s by Clive Ellis and Tony Larkin, two lecturers at the Royal National College for the Blind in Hereford, United Kingdom.
The Hoople is made to order with 5 different sizes available.
Usage examples of "hoople".
Lou Reed dwells with Mott the Hoople and the New York Dolls in a hazy Bermuda Triangle between sixties rock, disco, and the punk which has supposedly demolished both.
I backed them off to thirty-eight hundred rpm, listened, made my apologies to Davey Hoople, master marine mechanic, age nineteen.
American hooples to at least look to see if the victim was wearing an expensive watch?
The very people who had looked at him as if they were looking at a godthe students, ordinary fans, sports junkies in front of the TV sets, all those hooples who wanted a little piece of Go go Jojo, an autograph, a smile, a wave, or just the chance of being in the same place he was, breathing the same air he breathedeven they would avert their eyes!
He delighted in the Falstaffian braggings of Major Hoople, and occasionally spoke in what he imagined was the Major's voice.